New clause 22 - Definition of manslaughter
Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Bill [Lords]
4:30 pm
Mr Dominic Grieve (Shadow Attorney General, Home, Constitutional & Legal Affairs; Beaconsfield, Conservative)
Is not the nub of the problem that there is no such thing as proportionate self-defence that reduces murder to manslaughter? I have always seen that as the real mischief. Surely, the truth is that a person often has a legitimate ground to engage in self-defence, but oversteps the mark and faces the full force of the law.